The App Store, the aisle of Apple's iTunes Store devoted to selling software, reached a big milestone some time over the Thanksgiving weekend (here is the U.S.) adding its 10,000th application.

That's a far cry from the 552 apps that were available when the App Store launched in June 2008.

In an impressive piece of coding, 148 Apps created a labor-intensive tribute page that shows the icon of every application available in the store. Although the collage is one large image (a small piece is pictured), every icon is clickable courtesy of an invisible imagemap. I hope that they automated it!

The 148Apps tribute page also lists a ton of fun stats about the App Store:

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